"In a poetic turn of virology, the scientist who discovered hepatitis C in 1989 has now also discovered a vaccine that will hopefully cure the now-incurable disease"

I don't know if you follow the Informed Comment website from Juan Cole but he is very knowledgeable about these matters; his piece here sheds some light: [www.juancole.com]

Unfortunately, I do not believe that is quite correct. Iran has not restricted access to UN inspectors; in fact, the UN was present when they turned on the medical reactor.

Without going into a deep discussion on this I can briefly summarise why Gizmodo has turned into a 'tabloid blog' by quoting the title of this piece: "We're not objective".

Why let facts get in the way of a good old bit of American propaganda?

This story is a load of ignorant, right-wing rubbish.

Can he even turn his head without bumping into those shoulder pads?

Best thing is that they're going to try and get a shot of Curiosity when it attempts its landing... and that landing is going to be pretty amazing: [www.youtube.com]

LOL Brilliant!

Brilliant stuff! The hate is ridiculous, everyone thinks they are some sort of psychologist or military tactician. It could have used a bit of better editing to transition from the war scene to the flashback without it jarring so much but I understand what they were trying to achieve.

Lucky the ranger only had a tazer.

[kotaku.com]

Why don't they just release LEGO the Game following the Minecraft gameplay system?

Possibly here: [tech.fortune.cnn.com]

What we are looking at is the future when Windows 8 or Android get into the Educational Textbook arena. Then it'll be capable of multitasking (former) or accessible to more because of a cheaper price (latter).

So looking forward to sitting back in the captain's chair. Couldn't find the time to play which justified a subscription but I'm just itching to get some spare time and head out into space. It's a lovely game.

Iran and nuclear missile development? Only in the eyes of Americans (aka liars).

It's a great game; played it for a while but don't often have the time to spend playing games in general. New year's resolution is to add 2000 Gamerpoints to my account!

You can walk around inside your own ship? When did they implement that?

Don't let it descend into the mire that is Gizmodo.